Robeta Smith writes: 
Ernesto Neto was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1964).
Robert Klippel
Group of works from the series
No title (No. 1232) 1980
Private collection, Sydney©
Courtesy of Andrew Klippel
Accessed: 16.3.10
Mountain View November, 2008
Acrylic and mixed media, carved wood
34 x 18 x 15 Inches
Colour seems to be a important aspect in Edmonds sculptures, he uses bright colours in most of his recent works, but is a few of his older works he used different colours of wood to create a colour contrast. Edmonds works are abstract. Edmonds seems to base this works around landscapes and nature.
I like his works because they remind me of loose child-like drawings, which could represent that nature can't be formed and structured like the "man-made" world.
Didn't really know what to write. I did type something a little bit different in word but then i couldn't paste so that stuffed up that plan.
Spin doctor
Inner Circle
The installation, 'one-way colour tunnel', Being non-representational falls into the category of abstract art.
I went to the exhibition and came to the conclusion that a lot Eliasson's work is about the experience of seeing colour and being immersed in it. The artist uses the idea that every person's eye processes light and colour in a slightly different way, meaning that no two people can ever really see the same artwork.
With abstract art, it is more often than not about the viewing of the work, the reaction one has to it.
Abstract art is art in it's most subjective form.
For example if an artist creates an abstract form with a particular animal in mind, let's say, a dog. It does not look like a dog, but to the artist it will feel like a dog, it will have "the essence" of a dog. An audience member may then look upon the created form and feel it has the presence of an axolotl. And another may feel it is a cake or even the embodiment of a non-tangiable thought.
It is the experience of and reaction to abstract art which makes it significant.
I went to the Darren Knight Gallery and saw the Object, Memory and Self exhibition. on Saturday and found a really intriguing work by Kenzee Patterson.
Kenzee Patterson
Type 70
2010
aluminium spirit levels, two pack paint
58.5 x 58.5 x 58.5 cm
"It is regarded alternately as an expression of the individual psych and a set of conventions that mock true individuality." - 2nd paragraph of the Chapter for this week (Page 66, Art & Today). It is an interesting phrase to apply to abstract art and this work in particular. And Type 70 reflects, perhaps almost in an abstract way, the notions of geometric forms used in early abstract art..?
Robery Hagues bronze sculptures seems to fit the catagory quite well. Even though this collection is recent it seems capture the feeling that surrounded abstraction as it was emerging as a major movement, the conflicting ideas about weather art at the time should be based around organic or geometric forms. I like that he combines hammers with something natural like a willow here, it makes the two join in a way that seems compleatly natural even though they couldn't be more opposite. This is similar to the idea of 'impurity' that is seen in some sculptures metioned in Art and Today like Richard Deacon and Martin Puryear.
Gretchen Albrecht is a New Zealand artist. Her art includes both paintings and sculptures, both of which are considered abstract. She first became recognized through her paintings which involved pouring acrylic on canvases, eventually evolving her own signature oval-shaped canvas. She has recently started doing large scale stainless steel sculptures.
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R o s e G a r d e n ( P a u l R i c a u l t ), 2008.
acrylic & oil on canvas.
120 x 190 cm
